Final Scoring Summary

Team Records

Recap

Red Sox 6, Indians 3: Mike Napoli and Daniel Nava each drove in two runs as visiting Boston won its fifth in a row.

Jacoby Ellsbury, Shane Victorino and Mike Carp each collected three hits for the Red Sox, who scored three times in the first in support of Alfredo Aceves (1-0). Aceves cruised through five innings before allowing three runs in the sixth.

Napoli singled home two runs in the first off Cleveland starter Justin Masterson (3-1) and Nava drove home Dustin Pedroia with the inning’s third run. Carp tripled home a run in the fifth and Nava’s sixth-inning single scored Victorino to make it 5-0.

Cleveland sliced into the lead in the sixth on back-to-back homers by Nick Swisher (a two-run blast) and Jason Giambi, cutting the deficit to 5-3.

Aceves allowed seven hits and three runs in five-plus innings. Andrew Bailey pitched the ninth in place of injured closer Joel Hanrahan, earning his first save.

GAME NOTEBOOK: The Red Sox wrap up the three-game series Thursday before returning to Fenway Park to face Kansas City, in Boston’s first home game since Monday’s bombings at the Boston Marathon. … Masterson gave up four runs on 11 hits in five innings. … Boston’s Junichi Tazawa struck out four in two perfect innings of relief, and Koji Uehara fanned two in a scoreless eighth inning.

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